The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (215 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
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7363
brass, brasslike, as strong as brass
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7364
chains, shackles
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7365
assigned compulsion
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7366
building containing machinery (here water-driven) for processing, manufacturing, etc.
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7368
defect, failure, guilt
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7369
robbed, stripped
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7370
clumsy, awkward
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7372
be subordinated
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7374
ordering, management
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7375
(1) probably, (2) appropriately
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7376
goals, purposes
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7377
curse, poison, slayer, ruin
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7378
demand, call for
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7379
ended, destroyed
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7380
(1) silent, (2) always
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7381
every, any, all
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7382
see Genesis 1:3
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7383
(1) first, beginning, (2) primary
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7384
empty, destitute of life/activity
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7385
in which the moon was thought to hide between its old and new phases
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7386
relegated, fastened
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7388
extinguished, destroyed
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7389
at will = at pleasure/choice
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7390
tomb, burial place
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7391
susceptible, amenable, exposed
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7392
two or more
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7394
sprawled, spread out
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7395
slack, feeble
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7398
in battle formation
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7399
(1) forging, (2) invention
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7401
upper-body armor
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7402
from the Black Sea region, famous for their metalworking [four syllables, second and fourth accented]
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7403
tunic, upper garment
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7404
too strongly to be resisted/endured (“supported”)
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7405
thrust, struck, trampled
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7406
Ascalon: ancient Philistine port city
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7407
rearing and raging
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7408
twisted, writhed, bent, reversed
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7409
covered with layer(s) of metal
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7410
dirtied, fouled, polluted
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7413
unlike the Jews, the Philistines were not circumcised
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7414
the suffix “lechi” = lifting up/casting away of the jawbone: see Judges 15:14–17
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7417
gatepost/stake
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7418
used to lock the gates
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7419
south of Jerusalem, more than thirty miles from Gaza
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7420
see Numbers 13:22 (“anak” = “giant,” in Hebrew)
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7421
on which day only very short journeys were permitted
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7422
and in addition
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7423
i.e., loaded like
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7425
tell in myths/fables
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7426
the giant Atlas
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7427
unite, combine
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7428
uncertain, changeable
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7429
man has been
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7430
more unusual
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7432
Eshtaol and Zora: west of Jerusalem, in the valley of Sorec (Sorek) (see line 229, below)
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7434
name, inscription on coins
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7435
i.e., most of them
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7436
raise, uplift
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7437
poor, inferior
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7438
have paired = been equal
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7439
crosswise, sideways
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7440
blame, accuse, challenge
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7441
ordering, arranging
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7442
Timnath, Philistine city
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7444
Samson’s parents
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7445
proposed, planned
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7447
influence, incitement
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7448
pressed, pushed
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7449
opportunity, the course of events
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7450
stemming from (the marriage)
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7452
[three syllables, second stressed]
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7453
showily beautiful
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7454
accomplished: completed, perfected
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7457
gave up = surrendered
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7458
challenge, fight
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7460
is in servitude
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7463
canvassing: soliciting (as for votes, in an election)
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7464
praise, adorn
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7465
“Israel’s governors and heads of tribes”
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7467
see Judges 15:8
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7469
planning, considering, estimating
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7470
benefited, profited
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7473
victim, quarry
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7474
small ropes, braided for strength
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7476
a principal Philistine city
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7477
rather than
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7478
Succoth and Penuel: Israelite cities (see Judges 8:4–9)
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7479
the tribe of Ephraim, in the hill region north of Bethel
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7480
see Judges 12:1–4
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7481
Semitic tribe frequently hostile to Israel
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7482
the Ephraimites were identified by their inability to pronounce the “sh” in “shibboleth”: see Judges 12:5–6
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7483
“my nation/people (“mine”) may easily neglect me”
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7484
“unless there be those who think God does not exist”
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7485
hidden, unknown
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7486
teacher, learned man
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7490
are confused/perplexed/entangled
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7491
endless, everlasting
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7492
commands, laws
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7493
obligation (see Deuteronomy 7:2–5)
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7495
a person who had vowed to abstain from sex: see Numbers 6:2ff.
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7497
put/go down
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7498
plead, claim
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7499
frees, releases, acquits
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7501
heavy, full of care
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7503
strange, unfamiliar
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7504
guided, led
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